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I spent a lot of time vacillating between wanting to be seen as attractive, being terrified by too much attention, and wanting to succeed and fit in w...more

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I remember how the book talked about the pressure to please and be perfect that every woman falls into and then projects onto her daughter. Nothing is...more

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How was she not the quintessential woman in our culture, compulsively pleasing others in order to achieve some degree of perfection and power that's f...more

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Every woman knows what I'm talking about when I say girls grow up with a desire to please, to cede their power to other people. . . everyone knows abo...more

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All that young-girl idealism is someone else's now.